The Biblical text in the context of occupation
Subtitle: towards a new hermeneutics of liberation
By: [edited by] Mitri Raheb
Series: Contextual theology series -- 2
Publisher: Diyar
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bethlehem
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9789950376113; 9781477566695
Subjects: Hermeneutik; Church history; Christianity and politics; Hermeneutics; Christentum
Description: This book is the first comprehensive attempt to study and develop a hermeneutic of liberation in the context of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian land. It analyses the importance of culture, ethnicity, race, gender, ideology, theology, and politics vis-à-vis the processes of comprehension, analysis, interpretation, and contextualization of the Bible. The scholars from 16 countries bring not only an international scope of persuasions and perspectives, but also foster ecumenical, inter-disciplinary, multi-ethnic, and multi-cultural dialogue and philosophy. The book identifies a new path for theology that is responsible to its original source and that is relevant to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (back cover).
Notes: Contributions to a conference held in Bethlehem, Palestine, in August 2011.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Toward a new hermeneutics of liberation: A Palestinian Christian perspective / Mitri Raheb; title: Engaging the Palestinian theological-critical project of liberation: A critical dialogue / Fernando F. Segovia; title: Palestinian theology: Between construction and identification. A comparative analysis of the theology of Naim Stifan Ateek and Mitri Raheb / Peter Lodberg; title: Toward an emancipatory Palestinian theology: Hermeneutical paradigms and horizons / Luis N. Rivera-Pagán; title: (Home)Land, diaspora, identity, and the Bible in imperial geopolitics: What does the Asia-Pacific region have to do with Israel-Palestine? / Eleazar S. Fernandez; title: Interpreting the Bible, interpreting the world: Anglo-American Christian Zionism and Palestinian Christian concerns / Robert O. Smith; title: The hermeneutical predicament: Why we do not read the Bible in the same way and why it matters for Palestinian advocacy / Julia M. O'Brien; title: Talmudic terrorism in Bethlehem / Santiago E. Slabodsky; title: One text, many meanings: Reading a non-Zionist Judaism from the Hebrew Bible / Steven Friedman; title: The contribution of hermeneutics to peace and reconciliation / J. H. (Hans) de Wit; title: Arab Christian fundamentalist reading of the Book of Daniel: A critique / Munther Isaac; title: Biblical hermeneutics in the Kairos Palestine Document / Jamal Khader; title: The context of the Christians of the Arab world as a key to biblical interpretation according to the six first pastoral letters of the Eastern Catholic patriarchs / Rafiq Khoury; title: I am a Presbyterian Christian: Toward a dialogical contextual hermeneutics / Patricia K. Tull; title: What has the Bible to do with us? / Erik Aurelius; title: The theological and historical David: Contextual reading / Samuel Pagán; title: The ambiguity of identity and responsibility toward the other / Dexter Callender, Jr.; title: "Contact zone": Exploring land, liberation, and life / Yak-Hwee Tan; title: The dignity of resistance in solidarity: The story of Rizpah / Allan Boesak.